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[Karl]

Does anyone remember these? Think this will be a popular item with the 'oldies'

Got my hands on a box with a few in it. Time to get put away I think!

What would you guys do with them? Anyone had them before?

[Frozentech]

Does anyone remember these? Think this will be a popular item with the 'oldies'

Got my hands on a box with a few in it. Time to get put away I think!

What would you guys do with them? Anyone had them before?

Nice find Karl. I've not ever had that brand, being in the US. I know what I would do with them though

Edited by Frozentech, 14 February 2006 - 12:44 AM.

[PYRODUDE!!!]

OMG you?re so lucky. Umm, if it's not too much to ask...Could you make a video plllleeeaassseeee?!! I never saw one go of before. Where did you get hold of them?

[Karl]

Pyrodude:

Sure, do you want the video in daylight or darkness?
They arn't really that loud, just BP inside them but the casing is blown to pieces after it's fired!

Managed to get hold of them from a special friend, who also happens to have another pack of bangers made by a different brand.

[Creepin_pyro]

Just wondering - what makes you think they have BP in them as opposed to flash?

They look rather old from the packaging - any idea of the year?

[Karl]

The bang is extremely weak if it is flash.

Im not too sure about the age of these but I would presume older than 10 years. (1996 being the date of them being banned).

The only markings that I can find is on the back of the box saying 'C155'

'J.M ENERPRISES, MELMERBY HG4 5NB / Contents comply with BS7114: Part 2 : 1988'

[Damp Squib]

I bought that exact box of bangers 12 years ago ?1.00 for 10 they arnt that loud but you can fix that if you dismember one 'if they are the same' half way down the case it will have a 10mm hole on the inner windings of the tube so the banger will break in that spot,just wrap some tape around the outside of the banger so the tube doesnt brake in that spot,too much and the top will blow out with a weak puff just right and the tape will snap and increase the report,it is just BP inside I'd say around 1.5g

Edited by Damp Squib, 14 February 2006 - 10:52 PM.

[PYRODUDE!!!]

Pyrodude:

Sure, do you want the video in daylight or darkness?
They arn't really that loud, just BP inside them but the casing is blown to pieces after it's fired!

Managed to get hold of them from a special friend, who also happens to have another pack of bangers made by a different brand.

Darkness please, thanks. If you need a favour just give us a shout.

[Richard H]

It won't be a very impressive video!

[PYRODUDE!!!]

Meh, it's better then nothing!

[Mortartube]

Those bangers are not likely to be older than the very late 80's or early 90's, which is when JME/Brightstar started to become of prominence as a firework company. I'd save them, they are the collectors items of tomorrow. They will go phut, not bang. They either contain BP or nitrocellulose. (I had some Standard 3-2-1 bangers once with nitrocellulose pearls in), Useless!

[Rip Rap]

They either contain BP or nitrocellulose. (I had some Standard 3-2-1 bangers once with nitrocellulose pearls in), Useless!

I didn't know that mortartube (that Standard had produced bangers that contained NC). Were these among the last to be made? They must have been an absolute joke - the BP ones were bad enough.

Meh, it's better then nothing!

Barely! I think you may change your mind when you see one of these "bangers" go off. You will be totally under-whelmed! By the time bangers were withdrawn in '96, it was no loss because they had been made so impotent by then, they were laughable - literally laughable! I remember my Dad letting out a loud guffaw (it was louder than the banger) sometime back in the '80's after I had fired a bp banger. The shower of sparks as the fuse burnt down, the tension rising & then suddenly............."phufft". "AAArrgh ha ha. What the heck was that supposed to be?" (or something similar) "that was pathetic!" And he was right. He was used to "proper" bangers when he was growing up!
As mortartube said, you would be better off saving them, they will become desireable to collectors given a few years.

[willd]

I took a small french banger apart about 5 years ago and it contained flash. Im not sure about the larger ones though.